Great Science Quotes - Page 3

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Mathematical Logic

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Believe, Guy

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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  If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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• We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Science, Engineering

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “The ABC of relativity”, Signet

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Air

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Mother, Children, School

  "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

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• An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Answers

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

  Alan Valentine

  Angel, Science, Discovery

  ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Math, Science

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Thinking, Fairy Tale, Scientist

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

  Abraham Flexner

  Motivational, Math, Science

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Nature, Knowing

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Math, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

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• My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.

  Bill Gates

  Monday, Jobs, Tuesday

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

  Philip Kotler

  Curiosity, Starting, Starting Point

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

  James D. Watson

  Way, Subjects, Frontiers

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